broken glass in life and on a bike

There are two banes to every cyclist in Macedonia - broken glass and dogs.  Now that is for those who bike on the roads.  If you get offroad, then the banes of cycling are broken glass and thorns.

This morning as I was treking up Mt. Vodno, I came out of a turn in the Tsrnichi region and right there in the road was tons of broken glass!  Yike's!!  Now bikers are connoisseurs of broken glass . . . there are all different types.  There is the "big chunk" broken glass that you most often see near trash bins where people have tossed a beer bottle at the bin, missed or hit it and the glass breaks and falls all over - but in large chunks.  Those are easy for the cyclist to avoid.  Then you have car window/windshield glass which is everwhere and generally gets pushed to the edge of the road unless you are unfortunate enough to come upon a recent accident where the traffic has yet to push the glass off the road . . . beware this type of broken glass, it will slice your tires to ribbons!  But the worst kind of broken glass is that glass which is from bottles, yet has been run over by cars and trucks a number of times and it finely ground up.  This is the most deadly broken glass, because 20 minutes later, you will suddenly find you have two flat tires!  This type of broken glass cuts tiny holes all over your tire and the air seeps out.

Well the important thing to remember about broken glass is that you can only see it easily and avoid it, when you are traveling toward the sun.  The reflection of the sun twinkling on the broken glass reveals it's presence easily.  When you are traveling parallel or away from the sun, glass is generally invisible on the path until you are in the middle of it!  

And so it is with my life.  As long as I am heading toward the Son, I can see the danger along the path and avoid it, but let me try to travel parallel or away from the Son, I find I have no warning that I am in trouble until it is too late.  That is Dr. D's diagnosis of the day.